CVE-2011-2942

A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730917

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2013-06-08 13:05

Updated : 2024-02-28 12:00

NVD link : CVE-2011-2942

Mitre link : CVE-2011-2942

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2011-2942

JSON object : View

Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

redhat

enterprise_linux

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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